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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 7616130, member: 77639"]My wife and I have used all 3 services a lot over the years. We’ve never had a package shipped to us via UPS or Fedex not arrive eventually. A few have arrived damaged. Can’t say the same of USPS. Latest was a package coming from Estonia. USPS claimed for weeks that it was being held by U.S. Customs in Chicago. Somehow my wife got the guy in charge of incoming mail at U.S. Customs in Chicago on the phone … amazing that she was able to that. He looked through some printouts, found it listed, and said it was in and out of customs in a few days. It was cleared and turned over to USPS. That was months ago, and we’re still waiting. USPS claims U.S. Customs still has it.</p><p><br /></p><p>For shipping packages, we use Fedex exclusively after having too many USPS packages arriving later than predicted. UPS is too inconvenient to use in our location. We can do all the payment and label-making online. A Fedex truck is down our country road almost every business day, and we hand outgoing packages to the driver. Occasionally we drop packages at the Fedex Office location in town … folks there are fast, friendly and helpful. Everything is tracked. We have private insurance for valuables.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 7616130, member: 77639"]My wife and I have used all 3 services a lot over the years. We’ve never had a package shipped to us via UPS or Fedex not arrive eventually. A few have arrived damaged. Can’t say the same of USPS. Latest was a package coming from Estonia. USPS claimed for weeks that it was being held by U.S. Customs in Chicago. Somehow my wife got the guy in charge of incoming mail at U.S. Customs in Chicago on the phone … amazing that she was able to that. He looked through some printouts, found it listed, and said it was in and out of customs in a few days. It was cleared and turned over to USPS. That was months ago, and we’re still waiting. USPS claims U.S. Customs still has it. For shipping packages, we use Fedex exclusively after having too many USPS packages arriving later than predicted. UPS is too inconvenient to use in our location. We can do all the payment and label-making online. A Fedex truck is down our country road almost every business day, and we hand outgoing packages to the driver. Occasionally we drop packages at the Fedex Office location in town … folks there are fast, friendly and helpful. Everything is tracked. We have private insurance for valuables. Cal[/QUOTE]
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